Will Smiley @will-smiley.bsky.social History (Ottoman and Russian Empires) and international law.
Author, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War" (Oxford, 2018) and co-author, "To Save the Country" (Yale, 2019).
All views strictly my own.
Nick Hunt @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social Author: Red Smoking Mirror, Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are, Walking the Woods and the Water, Loss Soup, The Parakeeting of London. Co-director: Dark Mountain Project.
PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social PS: Political Science & Politics is the journal of record for the discipline. Email: ps@apsanet.org. Co-editors: Lina Benabdallah, Justin Esarey, Peter Siavelis, Betina Wilkinson. apsanet.org/ps
Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social علي کا ملنگ؛ intellectual historian; global; decolonial; foodie
Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social Keweenaw born and raised; Michigan alum x 2; historian of the Russian Empire at UC Davis. Happiest in the kitchen or on a trail. Personal account; opinions my own.
Nazerke Mukhamediya @mukhamedian.bsky.social researcher, Central Asian,
currently working on successions, regimes, and foreign policy of CA
Markus Hauser @thepamirarchive.bsky.social The Pamir Archive: Largest archive in private hands of maps, postcards, books and photos about Central Asia. Worlds largest digital collection of maps and text.
https://independent.academia.edu/MarkusHauser
André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social Historien (guerres, histoire publique), prof (CPGE, ScPo, ENS), auteur (Nathan, Monde des Livres), podcasteur (Paroles d’histoire, Le fil de l’épée)
Colin Mitchell @cpmishell.bsky.social Medieval/Early Modern historian of Iran, Central Asia and India at Dalhousie University Halifax, Canada
E-Biker & Lover of cats
The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com Independent English-language journalism in Ukraine
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com 🇺🇦 Firsthand news from the epicenter of global events. Stay informed and support the cause. Donate today: http://u24.gov.ua
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social Ukrainian patriot. Advisor to Internal Affairs Minister (2021-2023). Support my team of volunteer translators: http://patreon.com/TwitterAG
Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social Accidental military historian
Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social Associate Professor of Historical Studies @historicalstudies.bsky.social
at Central European University (Vienna)
Early Modernist | Habsburg and Ottoman, author of Portraits of Empires
Donal Coffey @donalcoffey.bsky.social Constitutional law, legal history. Assistant Prof in Maynooth University, Ireland.
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
Paul F Scott @paulfscott.bsky.social Constitutional law and national security law etc at the University of Glasgow
Alexandra Kemmerer @kemmereralex.bsky.social law, humanities & beyond. senior fellow & head of berlin office @MPILheidelberg // always reading, sometimes writing @FAZ_feuilleton et alibi
Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social 
Karen Tani @kmtani.bsky.social Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor in Law & History @Penn. Co-runs the Legal History Blog. Researches/writes about law & modern U.S. history: civil rights, social welfare, disability, federalism, agencies, the state. Dog person.
Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social Historian. #LFGM #LFC NYM-G-K-I. my opinions. he/him/his. Author of White Power: Policing American Slavery. And other stuff. Big Ron enthusiast.
VidyaKumar 🕵️🪐🚀💫⚖️🇵🇸 @vidyakumar.bsky.social Critic, Lawyer, Senior Lecturer in Law, DPhil (Oxon) @SOASLaw School, London UK, ✍🏾 on Revolution, Int'l & Consti' Law, Space Law, Legal Theory & History, Human/Labour Rights, Law+Lit , Feminist, Founder: Race & the UK Constitution Ass'n (RUKCA) (She/Her)
Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social Professor of Law & Democracy @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Constitutional Law | Human Rights | Brexit | Devolution | Political Violence | Colonialism | Other Assorted Dourness
He/Him 
Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social Professor. Comparative law/legal languages/legal history/constitutional studies/law & globalisation. Academic "humour". Posts indicate satire, perplexity or whatever. Opinions are my own, unfortunately.
https://ssrn.com/author=933550
Russell Sandberg @sandbergrlaw.bsky.social Professor of Law at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Writes on Legal History & Law and Religion with focus on marriage law and education law reform.
No DMs - please email SandbergR@cf.ac.uk
https://linktr.ee/sandbergrlaw
MPI Legal History and Legal Theory @mpilhlt.bsky.social official account MPI for legal history & legal theory;
Data protection advice: https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/socialmedia
Imprint: https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/imprint
Edited by Stefanie Rüther and Bastian von Jarzebowski
Legal History Blog @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social Scholarship, news and new ideas in legal history
Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social All things Roman and Roman law. 
Martin O'Donoghue @martinodonoghue.bsky.social Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt. Researching Ireland and India.
Author - The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 https://shorturl.at/BNQNP
Views own
Caroline Derry @carolinederry.bsky.social Gender, sexuality & criminal law/history.
Early women barristers. Agatha Christie.
Professor of Feminism, Law & History, The Open University.
📚 Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent (2025)
📚 Lesbianism and the Criminal Law (2020)
#ActuallyAutistic
David Foster @david-foster.bsky.social Associate Professor, UCL Laws. Legal History, Trusts & Property Law
Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social Social media content for Law & History Review and LHR's digital imprint, The Docket. Feed curated by @gauthamrao. For inquiries about The Docket, email at lhrdocketeditor at gmail. LHR information at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-histo
Chloë Kennedy @chloejskennedy.bsky.social Professor of Law and History; more here: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-chloe-kennedy
Laura Cahillane @laurcah.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of Limerick. Also a musician and outdoor enthusiast.
Peter Oliver @petercoliver.bsky.social Prof, Centre de droit public uOttawa Public Law Centre. Constitutions, fédéralisme, jurisprudence.
(Tableau/painting : Marcelle Ferron)
Michele Stephens, PhD @michelemariephd.bsky.social Former AssocProf, PhD-LatAm History, LLM- Human Rights Law, researches gender-based violence and domestic abuse; (New) Jersey Girl
Anselm Küsters @anselmkuesters.bsky.social Head of Department Digitalization and New Technologies, Centre for European Policy (cep), Berlin | Postdoctoral Researcher, Humboldt University of Berlin | Associated Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main
Christian Burset @cburset.bsky.social Law professor and legal historian at the University of Pennsylvania
Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social ‘You look like spring.’
‘Goth MILF’
‘Whore of Babylon.’
‘Are you a goth?’
‘Nice boobies.’
‘Useless cunt.’
‘A beautiful woman.’
Not my words: the words of the general public.
Colleagues: I will not post about you. My employer shares none of my views.
Stephen Bogle @stephenbogle.bsky.social Interested in what we owe to each other. Ideas, private law, litigation, intellectual history (17th & 18th century), European legal history. Based at University of Glasgow. 
Niamh Howlin @niamhh.bsky.social Associate Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin.
Researching legal history, legal professions and trials
Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social Law Prof QUB| Tyranny & Global Legal Order | Utopia | International Law | Feminism | Feminist Constitutionalism | Brexit & Northern Ireland | History | Law & Humanities | Cork & Belfast & Ireland | She/Her Sí/í
Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social Historian. Recovering Floridian. Charlottesville Now. 
Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
Siobhan "Shiv" Mukerji Barco @siobhanbarco.bsky.social Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Legal Historian. Host of the Talking Legal History podcast.
https://aslh.net/talking-legal-history/
Dr O. H. Mahometes-Nathoo, LL.M @omar-nathoo.bsky.social Historian of 19th-century jurisprudence. Latin-loving, theatre-going book goblin.
Live in London. Work for Bright Blue, and Commissioning Editor for Centre Write.
Views expressed on here obviously my own.
Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social Law, Religion & Power in the Ancient World | Tacitus | Classics & Ancient History | Initiator of Dutch-language series 'Wegen naar Rome' (Roads to Rome; @wegennaarrome) on Antiquity in Popular Culture | VU Amsterdam (NL) | She/her | Posts in Dutch&English
Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | https://substack.com/@drstephaniebrown
George Duke @georgeduke21.bsky.social Constitutional theory, legal theory, sociology of law, history of political and legal thought. A/Prof at Deakin Law School
Peter Edge @edge-law.bsky.social Law Professor, Oxford Brookes University. Specialises in Manx law, small jurisdictions, and the interaction of religion and law. Blogs as @edge_law on wordpress.
Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social Senior lecturer in law, dog parent, immigrant Bristolian, Irish.
Book on queer/trans law reform and coloniality out this year.
They/she. Fond of penguins. Views personal, not employer's. 🇵🇸
Header: @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
eireannach.ghost.io
Ruth Houghton @ruthhoughton.bsky.social Senior Lecturer
Research: feminist global constitutionalism - democracy, constituent power, utopias & manifestos. (she/her)
Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social PhD candidate at Queen's University Belfast. Looking at legislative drafting. Research Officer at the Northern Ireland Assembly. Looking at the Windsor Framework. Interested in devolution, public law, politics and climate change. He/him
Joanna Grisinger @grisinger.bsky.social ABOLISH ICE
—the people, united, will never be defeated—
Jennifer Black @blackjen1.bsky.social Historian of visual & material culture, business history, fraud, trademarks, advertising. https://jennifermblack.org/
Author of Branding Trust (https://www.pennpress.org/9781512825008/branding-trust/).
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Emily Prifogle JD/PhD @emilyaprifogle.bsky.social Prof @umichlaw.bsky.social. Legal historian writing book on 20c #rural #Midwest w/ @uncpress.bsky.social forthcoming Jan 2027. Teach property, fam law, #legalhistory + rural law. Co-founder of @womenknowhistory.bsky.social & @womenknowlaw.bsky.social.
Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights
Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ More books & essays: https://www.marydudziak.com/
#lawsky 🗃
Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social Associate Prof. and Director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School.
Tanner Allread @tannerallread.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law | Indian Law Scholar and Legal Historian | Okie | Chahta | Queer | he/him/his
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/tanner-allread/
Jessica K. Lowe @jessicaklowe.bsky.social Author, historian, law prof @UVA Law, on leave; OH/KY native, part-owner of a KY holler.
Web: https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/jkl4h/1517188
Book: https://a.co/d/fRe9crB
Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social Early American legal and political history. Presidential power. Probably kidding.
Jason A. Higgins, Ph.D @jasonhiggins.bsky.social Author. Editor. Historian. Prisoners after War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration (UMass Press) Digital Scholarship Coordinator Virginia Tech Press; Assistant Professor. My views don’t reflect my employer. https://shorturl.at/HpPO7
Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social #LegalHistory prof, U of Bristol Law. Account nobody else's fault. Working on: mayhem; 'legal medievalism'.
Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social Author of DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE, amzn.to/45LFzNg, PRACTICAL EQUALITY, AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN CONSTITUTIONS, ELOQUENCE & REASON | Next: BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF COAL COUNTRY | Prof @ BostonU | constitutionalism, legal history | https://linktr.ee/roberttsai
Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social Historian of U.S. politics, law, & constitutionalism. Director, Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. Book out fall 2026: The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History. Preorder: https://a.co/d/05KfbAa4
rachelshelden.com
Joshua Tate @jctate1215.bsky.social Professor, SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas. Interested in legal history and how it shapes the modern world. Usual caveats apply.
Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Lapsed Lawyer | Professor JHU | Director Hard Histories | Author The Trouble of Color, Vanguard, Birthright Citizens | msjonz@jhu.edu
Sally Hadden @sallyhadden.bsky.social Historian of law, the south, early America. Lover of baseball, college bball, English theatre. Author of SLAVE PATROLS: LAW & VIOLENCE IN VIRGINIA & THE CAROLINAS. Editor of Publications, Colonial Society of Massahusetts.
Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social Native Cook County Democrat, Cubs fan, and long-time historian of the American Revolution and Constitution
Tim Lubin @timlubin.bsky.social Historian of religion and law in premodern S&SE Asia, Sanskrit & Old Javanese philologist, interdisciplinarian, art spouse. Head of Law, Justice & Society program at WLU. President of the American Society for Premodern Asia. https://timothylubin.net/
Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social JD/PhD | THREAT OF DISSENT: A HISTORY OF IDEOLOGICAL EXCLUSION AND DEPORTATION IN THE UNITED STATES | https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674292352 | Posts are mine, not the views of my employer. ❤️ & Reposts are not endorsements.
Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social Legal historian. Recovering ironist.
Robin Miller Radner @historyrobin.bsky.social JD, PhD. History of separation of religion and state in America. Law, religion, and science.
Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social Distinguished Prof of Law & History @UCLALaw, cat lady, mom, lover of democracy. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Www.arielajgross.com
honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social Historian, professor, tired.
@biancapremo.bsky.social @biancapremo.bsky.social 
Dylan Lino @dylanlino.bsky.social I teach law at the University of Queensland.
Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social Transnational Legal History / Law and Empire
Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University. International law, history of property, political economy of science and technology. Writing on patents + climate struggle.
annasaunders.net
law.anu.edu.au/about/our-people/anna-saunders
Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social JD/PhD, UToronto historian of post-1500 Chinese law/politics/culture/intl relations; law & empire & postcolonial studies. Author of "Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics”.
Taisu Zhang @zhangtaisu.bsky.social Comparative historian, legal theorist, Chinese law and politics observer @Yale.
Andrei Mamolea @andreimamolea.bsky.social Historian of international law and politics | asst prof at BU
https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/andrei-mamolea/
Anne Kornhauser @akornhauser.bsky.social Dept. chair.😱 U.S. #historian -intellectual, legal, political. Book: *Debating the American State...* Now: U.S. democracy & the world. Former legal journalist. NYC
Richard Kay @richardkay80.bsky.social Wallace Stevens Professor Emeritus, UConn Law. Constitutional Law; Comparative Law; Legal History. Boston resident, Red Sox, Celtics fan. (NOT the Daily Mail reporter.) https://law.uconn.edu/person/richard-s-kay
Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social Prof Boston U. Law. JD/PhD History & dad jokes.
5th most-cited legal historian, 2019-23
Book: The People’s Courts. Next: A Faithful President: The Founders v. the Originalists
http://shugerblog.com
http://ssrn.com/author=625422
Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Private Law, Cambridge. Founding member Selden's Sister. Land law, medieval law, historical jurisprudence. AFHEA. She/her. Personal account.
Doris Morgan Rueda (she/her/ella) @dradorisita.bsky.social Legal historian, Colombiana artist, horror girlie ✌🏽
Current Law & History Fellow @ Stanford Law & Stanford Center for Law and History
Soon to be Assistant Professor of US Latiné History @ Appalachian State University
C. Annemieke Romein @caromein.bsky.social Early modernist: political-institutional and legal (#Policey), Digital Humanities: HTR (@transkribus Community Director + chairperson of the Board), Automatic Metadata, LOD. ECHA specialist giftedness. Editor @DLH.
Journal for Digital Legal History @dlh-journal.bsky.social We are a fully Open Access journal based at the UGhent Open Journal platform. We love to receive any kind of contribution on digital humanities methods applied to legal sources! Check us out: https://openjournals.ugent.be/dlh/
Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
Frederik Dhondt @herakleitosmd.bsky.social Legal historian @vubcore.bsky.social
Law, politics, diplomatic history. RT ≠ endorse.
https://vubcore.blogspot.com/p/frederik-dhondt.html
Grace Mallon @gracemallon.bsky.social British historian of the United States. Clive Holmes Fellow in History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Obsessed with American federalism.
Daniel Sharfstein @danielsharfstein.bsky.social Vanderbilt law prof, American legal history, property, federal Indian law, author of THUNDER IN THE MOUNTAINS and THE INVISIBLE LINE
Andrea Azzarelli @azzab.bsky.social Historian of police forces, anti-labour movements, and gun control @DISSGEA (Unipd) - @LARHRA
Writing a book about strikebreaking, guns and private policing in 20th Century France
https://unipd.academia.edu/AndreaAzzarelli
Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Institute for South Asia Studies. Lawyer, legal & cultural historian; contributing editor to "Poetry Flash"; writer of poetry.
https://berkeley.academia.edu/CarlLandauer